This year the killings may exceed 4,000. Now, a new report under development by American Border Patrol points to a direct linkage between border enforcement and the Mexican drug wars.
The report utilizes aerial surveillance of the border performed by ABP between the middle of 2006 and the fall of 2008. According to Glenn Spencer of ABP, long stretches of the border that were wide open to drug smugglers in 2006 are now protected by fences and vehicle barriers. "Our report will include video footage with comments by the air crew as to the thousands of tire tracks leading from Mexico into the United States, crossing a completely open border," Spencer said. Spencer said footage taken in late September shows many of these smuggling corridors to be blocked by fencing and vehicle barriers. "It only makes sense that barriers erected across smuggling routes would cut down smuggling and the income of the drug cartels." Spencer added. The report will be available online on Monday, October 27.

KNXV-TV -- PhoenixSting leads to arrest of 2 suspected human smugglersTwo alleged human smugglers were arrested in Phoenix on Monday after officials received a report from an [illegal] immigration tip line. -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Human Smuggling Unit received information that human smugglers were demanding $1,200 from a male victim's family in exchange for his safe release...

Pat Buchanan -- VDare.comColin Powell's tribal politicsWas race a factor in the decision of Colin Powell to repudiate his party's nominee and friend of 25 years, Sen. John McCain, two weeks before Election Day, and to endorse Barack Obama? -- Gen. Powell does not deny it, contending only that race was not the only or decisive factor...

Tucson Citizen Threat to border agent at issue in alien-slaying retrialThis week, federal prosecutors will open a murder trial against an Arizona border agent. For many people, the case also will put on trial the nation's border security strategy. -- The retrial of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett in Tucson is inflaming the divided passions about immigration and border security...

Bluefield (West Virginia) Daily Telegraph sc ICE to investigate complaint involving suspected illegalsTazewell, Va. -- A complaint involving a group of alleged immigrant workers in Tazewell County has been turned over to the federal ICE agency, officials said Monday. -- The Virginia State Police responded to a report of suspicious activity Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on U.S. Route 460 about a mile from Fort Witten...

Associated PressHuman heads sent to police in ice chestCd. Juarez, Chih., Mex. -- Police in northern Mexico have received an ice chest packed with four human heads. -- The chest that arrived at the Ascencion police station in Chihuahua state was marked "vaccines," but wasn't claimed for a week...

American Border Patrol New video of invadersA concerned citizen recorded some incredible night thermal video of a large group of suspected border intruders north of Nogales early last Wednesday morning, Oct. 17. The group was spotted on a major trail near Diablito Mountain...

Allan Wall -- VDare.comMcCain and Obama slug it out -- in SpanishHere we are, in the thick of a general presidential election, pitting Barack Obama against John McCain, and there is almost no talk about immigration. -- Did you watch the debates? In the three McCain-Obama debates, and the Palin-Biden debate, the topic was scarcely mentioned...

Donald A. Collins -- VDare.comRecession (depression?) won't solve our immigration crisis...Of course, US legal immigration is set by law and cannot be altered by executive action in view of labor market conditions. And lest we get to thinking that the upcoming recession (or is it "depression"?) will finally provoke legislation to solve the immigration crisis here...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers Latest news from south of the borderThe first and last lines of a column by Hérika Martínez Prado: ”Businesses closed, houses for sale, lands abandoned that before were cultivated, a high rate of migration to the US, sadness and fear, are part of what the wave of violence has left in the Juárez Valley...

Glenn Spencer -- OneOldVet.comPulling the plug on McCainSeven years ago I produced a video entitled "The Conquest of Aztlan" in which I made the case that Mexico is invading the United States with the intent of placing the Southwest under its jurisdiction. After spending six years on the border I haven't changed my mind...

ReutersAt least 21 dead in Mexico jail riotReynosa, Tamps., Mex. -- At least 21 prisoners died in a jail riot in Mexico near the Texas border on Monday when inmates from rival gangs staged a gun battle and set fire to the building. -- The riot started in the early hours in the prison in Reynosa, a rundown manufacturing city in northeastern Mexico where the powerful Gulf drug cartel is active...

Walter Moore, Candidate For Mayor of Los AngelesDump the Mexican Reconquista L. A. mayorLos Angeles can and should be the envy of the world. Instead, our city is a mess, and it gets worse each month. We can't afford four more years of a mayor who spends all his time running for the next office, staging photo-ops and going on out- of- town trips. We need a competent, full-time working mayor...

East Valley Tribune -- PhoenixMesa police investigating Arpaio's accusationMesa police have opened an internal affairs investigation of the lieutenant whom Sheriff Joe Arpaio accused of turning a blind eye to illegal [aliens] forging documents to get city identification badges. -- Mesa police Chief George Gascón sent a letter Friday asking for the cooperation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in the internal investigation...

Associated PressIllegal alien aid worker guilty of litteringTucson -- For leaving water jugs out for illegal border crossers attempting to make it through the desert, a volunteer with an [illegal alien] rights group is guilty of littering, a federal magistrate ruled. -- United States Magistrate Judge Bernardo P. Velasco in Tucson issued his ruling against No More Deaths volunteer Daniel Millis on Monday.

American Border Patrol Photo of the dayThis photo was taken from American Border Patrol's ranch in Southeastern Arizona. It shows two construction cranes working on the border fence...

Chicago Tribune Baby-waving illegal alien tries to avoid deportationIn what may be the start of more such battles during the waning months of the Bush administration, about 30 demonstrators and elected officials rallied outside a Chicago federal immigration office Monday in hopes of stopping the deportation of a mother of six...

KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, TexasStarr County Sheriff resignsThe Starr County commissioners have accepted the sheriff's resignation. They appointed Reymundo Guerra's chief deputy as acting sheriff. -- Guerra's attorney, Philip Hilder, confirms the resignation letter was sent. We're told Guerra wrote it over the weekend from his jail cell... [Related items]

UPIMexicans swamp Canadian refugee systemOttawa, Ont. -- Canada's refugee board is inundated with a record number of Mexican claimants seeking safety from drug wars and corrupt police, officials in Ottawa said. -- The Globe and Mail newspaper reported there are 9,070 Mexican refugee claimants waiting to have their cases heard...

North County Times -- Escondido, Calif.Police issue 43 citations during immigration protestOceanside -- Police officers burned through their ticket books Saturday while protestors on both sides of the immigration debate faced off outside a Spanish-speaking church. -- Officers issued 43 citations, impounded nine vehicles and arrested one juvenile near the Ebenezer Church, where the Mexican Consulate was issuing identification cards known as matricula consular...